Let’s be clear: organizing with your friends, neighbors, and comrades is always an option. You are free to feel sad, to despair, to rant online, etc. But if you refuse to seek out opportunities to build something better, collectively, what are you doing beyond giving more power to the people you hate?

We understand that collective organizing work isn’t for everyone, and we all have our limitations. Don’t feel bad if you can’t bring yourself to participate due to physical, psychological, or practical reasons. But we encourage you to try, even if it’s hard (and it will be, at times.)

We have two tasks before us. The first is to defend everyone and anyone in the fascist crosshairs. The second is to eject corporate Democrats and other bedtime-story-telling losers from the conversation, so that we can build a true political opposition on the left.

If Democrats ever hope to win back Wisconsin, they need to start taking critiques from the left seriously. Simply accusing us of supporting Trump and other fascists like Dimitrijevic did, not only pushes us further away, but it also absolves Democrats from having to actually engage with any of these critiques and make change. While electoralism alone will not save us, it does give us access to power.

We're going to hear a lot of excuses why Harris lost in the coming months, possibly the most infuriating one will be that it's because she's a woman, but instead of falling into the identity politics trap I really want us to get this analysis right.

The assignment was not to repeat 2020. The assignment was not to create an outcome close enough that we have to fear another Trump coup attempt. It looks like Harris will at best win another squeaker, enabling Trump to rile up a seething mass of violent resentment that endangers everyone in this country. 

That is a failure. It is a failure of the Harris/Biden team, an unacceptable failure.

This is a public statement by government officials excusing criminal acts. They acknowledge that the vandals with the paint violated Atta’s rights, but then say that Atta should have expected this violation. They reframe and minimize his property being attacked as him “not being welcomed with open arms.” This is how government officials build a permission structure for hate crimes, which then occurred with the more brazen attack that very night.